"Ars Poetica" by Horace
15 Mar 202315/03/23 a las 10:57 hrs.2023-03-15 10:57:15 por 
Pablo San Martín Varela
| Descripción | If a painter should wish to unite a horse’s neck to a human head, and spread a variety of plumage over limbs [of different animals] taken from every part [of nature], so that what is a beautiful woman in the upper part terminates unsightly in an ugly fish below; could you, my friends, refrain from laughter, were you admitted to such a sight. Believe, ye Pisos, the book will be perfectly like such a picture, the ideas of which, like a sick man’s dreams, are all vain and fictitious: so that neither head nor foot can correspond to any one form. “Poets and painters [you will say] have ever had equal authority for attempting any thing.” We are conscious of this, and this privilege we demand and allow in turn but not to such a degree, that the tame should associate with the savage; nor that serpents should be coupled with birds, lambs with tigers. |
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| URL | https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69381/ars-poetica |
| Última Modificación | 27 Mar 202327/03/23 a las 13:17 hrs.2023-03-27 13:17:27 |
